Search Film, Company, People...

MADAME DUROCHER

By Dida ANDRADE, Andradina AZEVEDO

ELO STUDIOS - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World, BRAZIL

Drama - Post-Production 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama, Historical, True Story
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
- Director(s)
- Dida ANDRADE, Andradina AZEVEDO
- Cast
- Sandra CORVELONI, Marie-Josée CROZE, Jeanne BOUDIER, Mateus SOLANO, Isabel FILLARDIS, André RAMIRO
- Producer(s)
- Nexus CINEMA (NEXUS CINEMA)
- Synopsis
- 1816. As a young woman, Madame Durocher arrives in Brazil from France accompanied by her mother, a dressmaker. Her mother’s business isn’t going so well and after her death Durocher decides to learn how to become a midwife.
  
  1832. Durocher is the first and only woman to ever learn parturition in the newly founded Medical School of Rio de Janeiro. After dealing with abuse, she starts dressing as a man to protect herself and to become more respected in her field. Though ridiculed by conservative doctors, she soon becomes the most renowned midwife in Rio, providing her services to both marginalized people and the Portuguese royal family.